Adamjee Set to Drive Paradigm Shift with "iLas"

"This capability is setting new heights in the insurance industry worldwide.”

Fredrik Coenrard (CEO Adamjee)

Recent days brought another wonderful news for us when Adamjee Life successfully rolled out SHMA’s, iLas, the top-notch software product for individual life assurance. Lately, Adamjee and SHMA, in concert with MCB, launched SHMA’s Bancassurance, starting from 15 MCB Branches and very soon stretching to 50 Branches country wide. Combined with telesales and self-service website these advancements are likely to spark off complete shift in insurance product sales and delivery and the days of conventional means seem to end soon.

“Now with the launch of MCB as our distribution partner and the SHMA Bancassurance module it is great to experience the difference of our approach vs the traditional Bancassurance sales approach”

Said Fredrik Coenrard De Beer, Chief Executive Officer Adamjee Life.

SHMA being prime technology partner of Adamjee, once again demonstrated its par excellence skills in developing core business solutions. Its acumen and quality of work truly reflects in the state of the art website it developed for Adamjee Life http://www.adamjeelife.com

“Our website is also breaking new grounds enabling clients to purchase Life Assurance online and the same thinking as above has skillfully been pulled through to the development of the site i.e. client empowerment and ease of access to transact with the Life Office”.

Said Fredrik Coenrard
He further added, “Our website will evolve always and stay up to date with latest technologies and methodologies of how to distribute product. Never has clients had the capability to buy life assurance online and both teams can be very proud of themselves. Well done…!!! We are confident that our association with SHMA will be a long one”.

In keeping with their tradition of breaking new grounds, Adamjee and SHMA are working together on many other innovative ideas, which will surface soon. The use of latest technology, creative approach and smart marketing will stand Adamjee Life to lead the paradigm shift, whose footsteps can be heard clearly now.

We wish Adamjee Life Godspeed.

Finally, we congratulate all Sidatians who participated in the project at any stage for this brilliant success and thank them for their untiring efforts and matchless dedication they showed during the course of this project.

B. Braun Pakistan

B.Braun Pakistan, one of the leading importers of Pharmaceutical and Disposables in Pakistan, has now gone ’Live’ with Sidat Hyder Financials and Supply Chain Management systems. B. Braun is a multi-national organization with its regional head office in Singapore. The SCM system has also fulfilled the reporting requirements of the parent office as well as the regional office.

Indus Pharma Goes Live

Indus Pharma recently had a successful Go-Live with Sidat Hyder—ERP-for-ALL application suite. The company is committed to quality, excellence and economy. It has been over three decades since the company’s inception, and it is striving to provide quality medicine to the common man to date.

Indus Pharma’s ethical policies and focused vision to deliver excellence has created top-ranking brands out of its products in their respective categories.

Asian Consumer Care

Asian Consumer (Pakistan) Pvt. Ltd., is the main importer for the well known FMCG brand ‘Dabur’, in Pakistan. With products ranging from Health Care, Personal Care and Food, Dabur’s popularity is quickly increasing in Pakistan as well.

Sidat Hyder Financials & Supply Chain Management systems have been selected and put in place here and are now fully implemented, fulfilling the user and financial requirements.

Oregano Chicken opts for i-Restaurant

SHMA’s Quick-Service Restaurant solution, i-Restaurant, is now ‘LIVE’ at ‘Oregano Chicken & Pizza’. The solution has been recently deployed at the restaurant. SHMA is proud to introduce a complete solution for all Quick-Service restaurants and their backend operations.

The front-end application runs on a touch-screen display and is fully-integrated with the SCM, thereby offering an end-to-end functionality by catering to restaurant needs and the complete cycle of over-the-counter sales, purchase & inventory management.

Aptech Selects Mobiz SMS solution

APTECH Limited is a global retail & corporate training solution provider, headquartered in Mumbai, India, with presence across five continents.

APTECH NN is a franchise of APTECH Limited that has selected mobiz SMS Solution. They are seeking to increase their student relations and enhance efficiency using the simple medium & credibility of branded SMS.

Designer Wear Company Braces Sidat Hyder – Financials

J. or Junaid Jamshed, a leading label and designer wear outlet for men and women, has defined and raised the standards of quality fabric in the country in a very short span of time. The company’s detail to quality, service delivery and innovation within the cultural boundaries has created a strong brand.

In line with J.’s vision, the company has recently acquired Sidat Hyder – Financials to streamline and automate its business processes. As one of the market leaders in the manufacturing and retailing of designer wear, J. does not compromise on quality whether it is the deliverable product or the technology facilitating the business at the back-end.

QSR solution goes Live at KFC Zamzama

KFC master franchisee, Cupola Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd. has been one of the early users of Sidat Hyder – Supply Chain Management solutions which is the basis to manage all the Supply Chain activities countrywide.

Complimenting its SCM product line, Sidat Hyder Morshed Associates has developed a Quick-Service Restaurant solution (QSR) to replace the existing RSS systems in use with KFC here in Pakistan. The solution has been recently deployed at the first site now going LIVE in Karachi.

The front-end application runs on a touch-screen display and is fully integrated with the SCM, thereby offering an end-to-end functionality by catering to restaurant needs and the complete cycle of over-the-counter sales, purchase & inventory management.

REDIT CHEX runs on Sidat Hyder – FINANCIALS

CREDIT CHEX, is a joint venture between Jahangir Siddiqui Group & DCD Group. Recently established CREDITCHEX has acquired an exclusive license from Experian for its credit information and bureau services in Pakistan. They will launch commercial credit and information bureau services in Pakistan based on international standards set forth by Experian.

Engineering Associates (EA) runs on Sidat Hyder – Financials

EA is a full service Engineering and Project Management firm with diversity of disciplines and expertise in multiple services having its head office in Karachi and branch offices at Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al-Ain in UAE, Islamabad, Lahore, Hyderabad and Gwadar in Pakistan and Muzaffarabad in AJK.

IGI Funds Go Live

IGI Funds Limited - IGIFL (formerly known as First International Capital Management Limited) is a group company of the IGI Financial Services and Packages Limited. IGIFL plans to launch a spectrum of mutual funds intended for the institutional as well as retail client base. The guiding premise for IGIFL’s business growth model is providing investment solutions and products designed to address expressed investor needs.

IGIFL entered the marketplace with IGI Income Fund (IGIIF) in an effort to provide investors with a liquid and fixed-income portfolio product. Currently, the IGIFL software is running live with Sidat Hyder – Solution for Mutual Funds. These integrated solutions are operating on a live environment platform and further automation to link up with the IGI Group CRM is underway.

WE Financials Go Live

WE Investment Management Limited (WEi), under its experienced management, successfully launched its first Closed-End Fund (WE Balanced Fund). The investment strategy of the fund is to invest in large, blue chip companies, high quality bonds, TFCs and Money Market instruments in order to create a quality portfolio, which provides investors with consistent capital gains, and income.

Technology Advancement at Paragon Constructors

Paragon Constructors is the flagship company of Paragon Group of Companies, a business venture that provides a wide range of services meeting the requirements of the construction industry.

Paragon was amongst the very few Pakistani constructors to acquire and implement Information Technology across the organization to streamline and expedite processes. By acquiring Sidat Hyder—Information Solutions, Paragon has automated major business areas, allowing quick access to accurate data and a fully-integrated environment between all the divisions of the company. Its recent implementation of the organization-wide ERP (provided by SHMA), which includes General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Supply Chain Management (Inventory & Purchase), Human Capital Management with Payroll, Labor Wages System, Equipment Management System and Contract Management System, will surely enhance the quality of service.

KPT Goes Live With Sidat Hyder – Financials

Working with all the different departments, the project also entailed complete data entry and reconciliation of accounts which was carried out with deployment of external resources in order to meet management deadline and expectations.

With two years of data entered into the system, integration with the existing payroll application and provision for further linkage with other KPT applications software, the KPT Finance department is now managing and using the application software independently and effectively.

It is envisaged that with such a system in place, the overall reporting time and efficiency is bound to improve with more robust internal controls and improvement in cash flow and financial management.

Sidat Hyder – Financials Now in Afghanistan

Habib Gulzar Group is one of the leading business groups in Afghanistan today. As the development work has picked up momentum in the country, and the economy is shaping up, SHMA has moved ahead to introduce and implement Sidat Hyder - information solutions at Habib Gulzar Group in Kabul. Core Financials and Inventory management solutions are now being implemented with customization to meet the local statutory and reporting requirements.

Habib Gulzar will be able to better manage its inventory through improved controls and enhanced reporting at Regional and International levels.

Outsourcing: D’Agro Outsources its operations

Dow AgroSciences is a global leader in providing pest management and biotechnology products that improve the quality of the earth's food supply and contribute to the health and quality of life of the world's growing population. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company.

D’Agro (Pvt) Ltd., the Pakistan office of the company after successfully implementing Sidat Hyder – information solution, has now outsourced the IS operations for Sales and SCM. Our dedicated resources now manage all the transaction processing and reporting operations and have taken the responsibility to provide staff and services in peak and off peak seasons. The engagement involves managing operations from nine different distribution locations across the country.

Besides enhanced and improved reporting levels, the engagement has yield better internal controls, cost savings and risk minimization on accounting of institutionalization of these operations.

Solution for Home Textiles: Adamjee Enterprises Going Live

Pakistan is a Textile country with our major workforce engaged in this industry. Home Textiles serves as one of the main export categories for Pakistan to the USA and EU.

With continuous and diligent efforts our SCM solutions has now been geared up to meet the requirements for any Home Textile processing and exports unit.

Adamjee Enterprises is one of the leading Home Textiles producers and exporters from Pakistan. Working jointly with the company’s professional management, we are now going live with our SCM implementation.

Adamjee Enterprises already uses Sidat Hyder FINANCIALS and HCM and with the SCM going live, this is going to serve as an integrated system for the company and basis for management reporting and controls.

SHMA Implements SAP at PTC

In May 2004, Pakistan Tobacco Company launched its SAP implementation project to replace the CS/3 system. The objective of this initiative was to conform to British American Tobacco’s global technology standard and to align PTC’s business processes with those of other countries in the region.

Before taking the plunge, for local implementation support PTC contacted a number of professional services firms and SAP service providers. After a rigorous evaluation and selection process, they decided to engage SHMA. The selection criterion that weighed heavily in SHMA’s favor is the functional knowledge and business process expertise of our resources. PTC teamed up SHMA’s consultants with BAT’s SAP resources from its Global Services Division from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Management targeted January 2005 to go-live on SAP. This appeared to be a daunting and ambitious target to achieve. No other company in Pakistan, national or multinational, had done what PTC set out to do within this short time span. However, the “can-do” and positive attitude of the project team and the support from PTC’s project management made the impossible possible. SAP is now operational at PTC’s head office, two factories, four regional offices, and 14 warehouses across Pakistan. Data is captured at the source and once. Business rules, access rights and privileges, data validation guidelines are built into the system.

Among the significant contributions SHMA consultants made on the project include, rationalization of the chart of accounts and reports; configuration and implementation of the Distribution Resource Planning functionality, which is not available in standard SAP; and programming of a number of non-standard SAP reports, to name a few.

On 21 March 2005, in a glittering ceremony to mark successful closure of the implementation phase, Mr. Jeremy Pike, Chief Executive of PTC recognized SHMA’s effort and awarded a commemorative plaque. Following successful closure of the implementation phase, PTC has now engaged SHMA for post-implementation support.